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v TQBACUO PIPE BOWL.

No. 387,041. Patented July 31, 1888.

"- vertical section of a pipe-bowl made accord- '30 and earthy material (when used) and after they UNITED STATES PATENT ZOFFICEQ WALTER s. BLAKE, [OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE BLAKE PIPE COMPANY,

SAME PLACE.

TOBACCO-PIPE BOWL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,041, dated July .31, 1888.

. Application filed January I, 1888. Serial No. 260,115. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER S. BLAKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented 5 a. new and useful Improvement in Tobacco- Pipe Bowls, of which the following is a speci- My composition consists of thefollowing ingredients combined in or about the following to proportions: finely ground corn-02%g eightyiive parts; Sl icateo so a e par and I prefer to um earthy material-- such as calcined ma nesia laster-ofaris kaolin WW'h silicate of soda (natural or diluted with water) the particles of corn-cob together, and forming a solid substance.

The accompanying drawing represents a 'ing to my invention.

The ground cob is to be thoroughly mixed.

whiledry with the earthy material, (when used,) and the silicate of soda (natural or di luted with'water) is forced through the mass under pressure.

r In the process of manufacturing these pipebowlsand to carry my invention into effect I .takea s'afiicient quantity-0f the ground cob have been thoroughly mixed to nearly fill the molds in which the bowls are formed. I then pour ina sufiicien't quantity of silicate of soda" (natural ordiluted) over the top, and a closely-;

5 fitting plungeris forced down upon the mass,

- hard glossy'fiuish. The inside of the bowl may then be coated with a mixture of one part of calcined magnesia and one part of kaolin 5 made into a thin paste by the addition of a sufficient quantity of silicate of soda. The stem-hole is then 'hored'and the bowl is completed.

In the application of the above process I prefer to use calcined magnesia in combination with the ground cob and silicate of soda, on account of its being free from anynnpleasant taste or smell, and atthe same time combines the properties of corn cob and me'erschaum together, forming a cheap and agreeable pipe to, smoke and -well adapted to absorbing the nicotine, &c., let from the tobacco.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is 6o 1. A composition for the manufacture of pipe-bowls, consisting of ground corn-cob and silicate of soda, substantially as set forth.

2. A composition vforthe manufacture of pipe-bowls, consisting of ground corn cob, earthy material,- aud silicate of soda, substantia'lly as set forth.

'- u WALTER S. BLAKE.

' In presence of- I GEO. H. KNIGIHT,

which forces the silicate of soda through the EDWILS. KNIGH 

